I am not amused.

he already knew he had a brother in the DEA.

I liked the ending more after reading the interview, i didnt hate it that much before hand either though. The sklyar rant was the best part of the episode.

The directing for this show is the best on tv imo.

Liked it better as well after reading interview. Seemed way too contrived the moment I watched it.

Loved that Gus was at the DEA office and how he made the donation.

The Skylar speech was great. Pretty dumb of Wall to think that he could say he say his mother and that it wouldn't be found out.

NIT Point: Why couldn't just Jessie call his regular cell phone and just have it come in as restricted so Sky couldn't trace it?

I would've liked them actually showing us how skylar is uncovering each lie, and the shock/annoyance she faces every time she finds one out.

Would've made things more dramatic/interesting i think.

The ending was meh, Any reasonably intelligent person knows that what Walt is doing has ugly consequences, we didn't need this to be shoved in our faces, in the least not through an indirect action (non-action) that Walt did with regards to Jane. It was too far fetched and a stretch for me, its fine though... will still eagerly wait for Season 3.

I do honestly think Breaking Bad is the best show out there, the writing for this episode was excellent. I did not see the ending coming until it literally happened, despite the shot just before of the 2 planes on the radar. There is an interesting article out with Vince Gilligan (the creator and writer of the finale) which is a very good read.

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/i...lligan_se.html

Can't wait for season 3 already.

That would be a ******ed ending. From everything we have seen of Gus he is very calculating and under the radar, killing two civilians, would raise his profile a little more than he would like.
I noticed that as well.

I didn't mind the ending, but I hated how they built up the ending at throughout the season, when it turned out to be a red herring.

+1

You can kill your enjoyment of anything by over-analyzing it. Which is why I usually avoid these kind of threads.

After reading that interview and what Gilligan was thinking throughout the season i feel a lot better about the ending. Honestly it seems fitting.

Geez, I thought it was a great ending. After reading this thread, Im not so sure anymore. Thanks guys

bingo

also i just asked my dad who went to air traffic controller school and has been a pilot for the past 30 years about the probability that two aircraft collide in mid air and he said it is almost zero...i guess all the big commercial planes have collision avoidance systems built in so that when they get too close to another plane a computer tells them what to do, they don't even listen to the controller's directions when that alarm goes off so that whole event was probably pretty unrealistic

Blaming it on over-analyzing is a pretty lame way of looking at it. The plane crash was just bad storytelling plain and simple. You don't tease something for 12 episodes and then use that tease to show us how the horrors of drugs go full circle. I hate being hit over the head with preachy messages.

I love the show but that was just an awful way to wrap up that storyline/teaser.

Something highly unlikely yet not impossible happening on a TV show???????? Im so pissed.

read my previous post, i had no problem with the episode...that was just for the people who were questioning the possibility of two commercial planes colliding in mid air

One of the best things about Breaking Bad has been its slavish dedication to realism in the face of a wild premise. It handles its minutiae with intelligence and gravitas. I think it's not unreasonable for fans of the show to expect continued realism and believability in every episode.

Walt could have taken a dump in the pool to end the season and people would still be high fiving.

LOL Franchise.

It's fascinating to me that I had just used "deus ex machina" for about the 4th time in 25 years and then follow that link and there the creator is discussing the same thing. Tells me I'm pretty locked in/or maybe that the writing is good/then again, there's always neither. In any case, I am along for the ride.

Can't say the karmic angle of a butterfly flapping it's wings off the coast of Japan and a chemistry teacher deciding to cook meth together conspiring to bring down God's judgment in the form of a passenger jet over said teacher's Albuquerque home kicks my prop.

But then I guess, "I deserve everything that is happening to me."

I'm not saying I want Gus standing in the driveway covered in blood holding a machete. He would obviously have someone else, someone experienced, "take care of it", much like Saul knows people who "take care of it".

That was never brought up during their conversations, was it? That was why the scene in the DEA office where Gus saw the donation jar was a great scene to me and the repercussions of that should be very good.

The creator of the show said in an interview that Gus would already have known.

The way it was presented it was ambiguous. You can't tell that he already knew. What it established to me is what a cool customer he is because you can't tell if he already knew. It's easy to imagine Walt with a minor stumble and quick recovery in the exact same situation (if he were surprised), or a laboured attempt at gathering more info (if he weren't).

Why would Gus kill Walt or his family? Everything seemed to go smoothly in their transaction. And as others have pointed out someone like Gus would be aware of Walt's DEA brother-in-law.

I've decided to imagine the final scene of the previous episode was the finale. That ending was soooooooooo much better than this one.

The only good news is that this crappy ending is going to make the wait for season 3 much easier than i had expected.

Skylar going into labour at the exact worst moment possible for Walt = realistic?

WTF are the odds of that?

Good show though.

what an awful end for this season. they give you an entire season worth of amazing build up and foreshadowing... just to give us this ****** of a season finale.

show was decent besides the ending. had some awesome parts. skyler deserves to be on facialabuse and flynn is a **** for wanting to be called flynn. lol @ the paypal slot machine sound effects.

walt agreeing to be on tv was stupid. just say like "i appreciate what you're doing for me, son, but I was brought up to not accept charity. you earn money, you don't have it given to you." or something. bleh, i could've written this finale better.